Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock Holmes

The Great Game

Sherlock Holmes

Dr. John Watson: There are lives at stake... Sherlock. Actual human li... Jus-just so I know, do you care about that at all?
Sherlock Holmes: Will caring about them help save them?
Dr. John Watson: Nope.
Sherlock Holmes: Then I'll continue not to make that mistake.
Dr. John Watson: And you find that easy, do you?
Sherlock Holmes: Yes. Very. Is that news to you?
Dr. John Watson: No. No.
Sherlock Holmes: [pause] I've disappointed you.
Dr. John Watson: That's good... that's a good deduction, yeah.
Sherlock Holmes: Don't make people into heroes, John. Heroes don't exist, and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.

Jim Moriarty: Do you know what happens if you don't leave me alone, Sherlock?... To you?
Sherlock Holmes: Oh, let me guess. I get killed?
Jim Moriarty: Kill you? N... No, don't be obvious. I mean, I'm going to kill you anyway, some day. I don't want to rush it, though. I'm saving it up for something special. No, no, no, no, no. If you don't stop prying... I'll burn you.
[pause]
Jim Moriarty: I will burn... the *heart* out of you.
Sherlock Holmes: I have been reliably informed that I don't have one.
Jim Moriarty: But we both know that's not quite true.

Dr. John Watson: I'm glad no one saw that.
Sherlock Holmes: Hm?
Dr. John Watson: You ripping my clothes off in a darkened swimming pool. People might talk.
Sherlock Holmes: People do little else.
[smiles]

Dr. John Watson: [John arrives home to find Sherlock shooting at a smiley on the wall] What the *hell* are you doing?
Sherlock Holmes: [mumbles] Bored.
Dr. John Watson: What?
Sherlock Holmes: Bored!
Dr. John Watson: [seeing Sherlock raise the gun again] No...
Sherlock Holmes: Bored! Bored! I don't know what's got into the criminal classes. Good job I'm not one of them.
Dr. John Watson: So you take it out on the wall?
Sherlock Holmes: Ah, the wall had it coming.

Jim Moriarty: I've shown you what I can do. I cut loose all those people, all those little problems, even thirty million quid, just to get you to come out and play. So take this as a friendly warning... my dear. Back off. Although, I have loved this, this little game of ours. Playing Jim from I.T. Playing gay. Did you like the little touch with the underwear?
Sherlock Holmes: People have died.
Jim Moriarty: [shouting] That's what people *do*!

Jim Moriarty: Is that a British Army Browning L9A1 in your pocket... or are you just pleased to see me?
Sherlock Holmes: Both.

Sherlock Holmes: I see you've written up the taxi driver case.
Dr. John Watson: Er... yes.
Sherlock Holmes: A Study In Pink. Nice.
Dr. John Watson: Well, you know. Pink lady, pink case, pink phone. There was a lot of pink. Did you like it?
Sherlock Holmes: Um... no.
Dr. John Watson: Why not? I thought you'd be flattered?
Sherlock Holmes: Flattered? "Sherlock sees through everything and everyone in seconds. What's incredible, though, is how spectacularly ignorant he is about some things."
Dr. John Watson: Now hang on a minute, I didn't mean that in...
Sherlock Holmes: Oh, you meant "spectacularly ignorant" in a nice way! Look, it doesn't matter to me who's Prime Minister or...
Dr. John Watson: Yeah, I know
Sherlock Holmes: ...who's sleeping with who...
Dr. John Watson: [quietly] Whether the Earth goes round the Sun.
Sherlock Holmes: Oh God, that again. It's not important!
Dr. John Watson: Not impor...? It's primary school stuff. How can you not know that?

Dr. John Watson: Anything in? I'm starving.
[Opens refrigerator]
Dr. John Watson: Oh, f...!
[closes door immediately, pauses, opens it again, stares at a human head for a bit, closes door]
Dr. John Watson: There's a head... A severed head!
Sherlock Holmes: [From other room] Just tea for me, thanks.
Dr. John Watson: No, there's a head in the fridge.
Sherlock Holmes: Yes?
Dr. John Watson: A bloody head!
Sherlock Holmes: Well, where else was I supposed to put it? You don't mind, do you?

Sherlock Holmes: [after explaining a series of complicated deductions] The picture's a fake.
Dr. John Watson: [impressed] Fantastic.
Sherlock Holmes: Meretricious.
DI Lestrade: And a happy new year.

Sherlock Holmes: [re: Watson] Study In Pink, you read his blog?
DI Lestrade: Of course I read his blog. We all do. Do you really not know that the Earth goes around the Sun?
[Sgt Donovan snickers]

[last lines]
Jim Moriarty: Sorry, boys! I'm *so* changeable! It is a weakness with me, but to be fair to myself, it is my only weakness. You can't be allowed to continue. You just can't. I would try to convince you, but everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.
[Sherlock glances at John, who gives a small, almost imperceptible nod]
Sherlock Holmes: Probably my answer has crossed yours.
[shifts his gun aim to the bomb]

Dr. John Watson: You know, I'm still waiting.
Sherlock Holmes: Hm?
Dr. John Watson: For you to admit that a little knowledge of the solar system and you'd have cleared up the fake painting a lot quicker.
Sherlock Holmes: It didn't do you any good, did it?
Dr. John Watson: No, but I'm not the world's only consulting detective.
Sherlock Holmes: True.